NicoNico Douga

Im sad of this news.
Although Im not a frequent Nico² visitor, but i gonna miss wacky MADs ;__;
Well, we do still have creepy ronald mcdonald right?

I am so addicted to Niconico... it'll be sad to say goodbye to MAD videos. Youtube'll sure be making tons of money from the videos not on Niconico anymore. :(

(sarksam) Fighting your fans is always the best way to boost your sales! (/sarkasm)

What's next? Will they sue doujinshi circles?

I guess most media companies are learn-resistant.

As long as they don't touch the vocaloid stuff, then we're good =p

Wait wut????????

Oh noes. So basically ANYTHING with a clip from an anime is gone now?

I'm not good at navigating Nico but sometimes I watch stuff with my friends...what's goign to happen to the Nico Nico Kumikyoku videos?

Now my Nico account is pretty much useless *sigh*

This side is pretty much useless to me now
MAD videos are the only things that I watch when I go here anyways

This stuff is happening all over the place...'tis a real shame. I don't see MADs hurting any companies.

"NicoNico Douga announced that it made an agreement with the likes of the Japan Animation Association to delete videos which infringe copyright so its sayonara to MAD and a ton of other fan made videos."

More like "bullied" rather than an "agreement".

This is indeed a sad news especially for some of us frequent NicoNico visitors who finds the said video service much more superior than Youtube due to its content.

Content associations is slowly killing NicoNico.

Sad to see this happening... Anime is the heart of niconico. They have a very unique community which I don't want seeing breaking up because of this.
I do use NicoNico Douga occasionally, but since buffering takes a very long time, I won't use it if its already uploaded on youtube.

As long as we have torrent, i will not worry about it ^^

Wow... RIP NicoNico Douga.
Dumb move.
I mean, really... can't understand why those so called "Associations"... which is probably like MPAA and RIAA are so blind to see that fanmade videos are probably the animes and mangas biggest advertisers.

But you know, I'm tired of getting angry over sh*t like this. I hope MPAA and RIAA eventually wins and get what they want so that the movie and music industry gets f*cked up and finally realise how much they were actually winning by letting people use their content to do fanbased stuff, or even from pirating.

Anime and Manga would be NOTHING here in Brazil, and probably on USA too, if it wasn't for pirating and fansubbing.
Same goes to gaming industry. What would Sony be today if it wasn't for PS and PS2 pirated games?

How ungrateful big corporations can be? Like this last weekend I watched a play... was kinda expensive, but I decided to watch after seeing a part of it on YouTube. And I'm willing to bet, at least 50% of the people watching were also there only because of the same YouTube clip...

Things will become very clear in the future, and we'll eventually have a laugh on stuff like Japan Animation Association, MPAA and RIAA. And here it is: Very soon, the only stuff most people will watch (or think is worth watching) is the stuff people talk about, make YouTube fan videos, and publish on video sharing websites.

Anyways, this is all a part of a bigger discussion on when music, movies and other types of art stopped being "art" per se, and turned into products with "artists" caring more about how much they'll profit from it than on how many people likes their art.

One of the things that are currently wrong with the culture and way of thinking, IMHO.

I wonder if it's time to migrate to Chinese video sites...

I still can't believe they're getting rid of FAN videos. Do they have no sense?

I guess its time to find another site that replaces niconico (that is, if this turns out to be as bad as it sounds).

The end.
i loved the fan made videos for their rampant humor...

Wow, I can't believe this. Deleting full episodes makes obvious sense, but fanmade stuff??? Will there be a reason to watch videos in niconico anymore? :(

*sigh* I have a nico account which I check once in a while for excellent M@Ds which never gets reupped to youtube.
http://www.ted.org/index.php/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity.html
I wonder if the management of nico ever heard of such views as portrayed in the video abv...

Nico Nico getting rid of MADs is like Youtube getting rid of everything anime related. I barely recall finding ANYTHING on NicoNico that wasn't anime related.

I managed to sign up for account and watch a few videos, but that's about it. Had some help from Google translation and 'display form details' on the developer toolbar for FF ^^;;

hope users make this japan anime association to decline, nico nico will die with this stupidity, you cant stop fan creativity

awww, i just started to like niconico :P

No way!!
seriously, I bet they didn't see "Cinderella-Stairs" or the godlike MAD series...

Is this really the end of nico douga? hmm...
the community is still huge and building a new one on a new or different platform will take some time. lets hope it doesnt turn our like stage6 with no/bad replacements.

Seriously, now I don't see the point of going to niconico anymore

wow. might as well take down the whole site while they are at it -.-. RIP niconico T_T

Even vids of people doing cover of anime songs with instruments are getting the axe....Ridiculous

Awwww... I'm such a Nico Video rat. I'm practically there every other hour to see the fantastic vids people make. :(

Yes, I'm still sane after watching hundreds of DONARUDO, Touhou, YuGiOh, and Hatsune Miku vids.

I use nico nico every now and then, this news is definitely a blow to their own community. Nico Nico thrives on this stuff.

That sucks. I always look to Nicovideo for higher quality videos. I can't stand Youtube quality. My eyes explode.

It was fun while it lasted. :(

At least they didn't take away all MADs. And the medleys/vocaloid stuff are still around.

This just sucks... No more MAD videos you say? NooOooOoo!

I'd actually be glad about the demise of MADs, Can't stand 99% of them. but the news as a whole does seem pretty bad.

I used NicoNico for watching Raws from time to time but some things, the the fan edited SRW trailers floating around were fun to watch too!

Zoome?
Example: http://circle.zoome.jp/nicovideo/media/528

A future of crappy homemade videos. Can't wait!

As soon the anime/manga companies formed these sort of media "associations" (ie: cartels), I knew eventually they would start acting like the hostile short-sighted control freaks of the MPAA/RIAA that plague the USA. User-created MAD and parody videos are essentially free advertisements (I've personally spent good money buying titles that I only found out about through MADs and parodies) that increase both marketshare and mindshare, and to waste time and money quashing those videos just because they technically infringe copyright is self-defeating and unprofitable.

The anime/manga industry grew and thrived because companies understood their fanbase enough to realize that sometimes copyright infringement isn't a bad thing, and that certain forms of it can actually generate profit. But now that the industry has grown large, rich, and visible, there are now more and more out-of-touch businessmen involved who don't understand the fanbase nor want to, and thus can only act in the most short-sighted, hostile, letter-of-contract manner. The sort of idiots would sue us because many of our message board avatars technically infringe copyright. Just because you can pressure and sue someone doesn't mean that you should.

I am a nico nico douga user. I love that site, and when I found out about this the other day I was not happy. They will be deleting what nico nico douga is. It is effectively killing the site. I am not happy about this.
This is very very sad news indeed.

That was extreme... and I have a feeling this is going to build up to something bigger :(

Sad news to me. No more smile for "nico nico" =(

So sad...... i looooooooove Nico Nico douga videos...........they are so cool..too crappy they are doing this stuff ...but well laws are laws....